Had an interesting experience today at the end of a 170 mile run. During the run I managed to break the decompression cable (that is another story) and when I got home in preparation for the cable replacement I went to remove the seat and tank.
I was askance to find that during the run the seat frame had broken. The two vertical legs at the front that the seat pivots on had moved from their normal vertical position to a horizontal position - the metal in each leg had "torn" allowing the seat to move rearwards about 1 inch - just enough to put a not so nice crease dent in the rear guard.
Only recently I moved to a fully sprung seat by installing the luggage carrier described in KTB and I wonder if this change was the root cause of the failure.
Would be very interested to learn if any others have had this happen to their seats, especially anyone using the luggage carrier as described in KTB, figure 21
Martyn
I was askance to find that during the run the seat frame had broken. The two vertical legs at the front that the seat pivots on had moved from their normal vertical position to a horizontal position - the metal in each leg had "torn" allowing the seat to move rearwards about 1 inch - just enough to put a not so nice crease dent in the rear guard.
Only recently I moved to a fully sprung seat by installing the luggage carrier described in KTB and I wonder if this change was the root cause of the failure.
Would be very interested to learn if any others have had this happen to their seats, especially anyone using the luggage carrier as described in KTB, figure 21
Martyn